Package Management

This is a short index of the available package management related documentation.

• Package Management Infrastructure provides an overview of what components belong to Haiku's package management infrastructure and how they work and interact.
• Building Packages gives information on various aspects of the package building process.
• Boot Volume Directory Structure outlines the directory structure of a package management powered Haiku boot volume.
• Haiku Package File Format specifies in detail the file format of Haiku package files (HPKG) and Haiku package repository files (HPKR).
• Packaging Policy defines the policy for creating Haiku packages.
• Packages Status gives an overview of the packages needed for a Haiku standard build and their current status.
• Hybrid Builds provides some information regarding hybrid builds.
• HaikuDepot explains the concept and ideas behind HaikuDepot, the GUI package manager in the making.
• Migration lists the changes that users should expect when migrating to a package management Haiku.
• Bootstrapping Haiku explains the process of bootstrapping Haiku and third-party packages.
• TODO is a list of package management related work still to be done.
• ​Blog posts on package management (the Batisseur ones are only indirectly package management related).
• (Old) Package Management Ideas is a collection of thoughts and discussions regarding package management. It has been partially obsoleted by the progress on the package management implementation.
• ​http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZQQM5zU-Q&list=PL3FFCD4C6D384A302 is a video playlist of Ingo and Oliver explaining and demonstrating the package management branch at BeGeistert 2011.

Below are links to source code related to Haiku's package management.

• Package management has been merged into "master", so see the ​Haiku and ​Buildtools repositories for that
• ​HaikuPorts contains the build recipes of various ports. There is a "package-management" branch.
• ​haikuports.cross contains the minimal set of build recipes to bootstrap a new Haiku architecture.
• ​haikuporter is the tool to create binary packages from build recipes. There is a "package-management" branch.